Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!
since those are news feeds rather than people, i gotta shout out this Firefox add-on for finding people’s mastodon accounts after visiting their blog or other pages. it’s really cool: addons.mozilla.org/…/streetpass-for-mastodon/
Definitely Taylor Lorenz. She’s almost always on trending, but she’s a journalist always posting about twitter and musk’s controversies, very interesting content.
We Distribute is kind of like a publication about the fediverse. Great content.
I don’t complicate my life with lists 1 Someone follow me 2 Looking in the profile which themes he has 3 If it interests me, I follow back, if not, well, not.
Mastodon isn't really about the "celebrity" follow how twitter was, it's more about finding your own tribe of weirdos. I second (third?) the idea of following hashtags, and then checking out those accounts that post to those tags.
The other thing I'd like to mention is the people I see happiest on Mastodon have all migrated servers at least once. Get an account on one of the big main servers, explore, then move to a small instance that suits your interests and has people you like. That makes for a much more useful and entertaining local feed. Don't feel it needs to be a 100% match, it's more about the people (it's about the cones ).
I’m using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can’t say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.
Beyond that let finding people happen organically. Focus on finding hastags and groups to follow, then the interesting people will start to bubble up in your feed naturally. See also.
And if you’re on a niche/topical server don’t forget to get an eye on your local feed. It gets swamped on big instances but can be a great discovery tool on smaller ones.
I have no explicit suggestions but I will just repeat what was told to me: hashtags are your friend. Find people associated with those that interest you.
Actually I take that back, the one suggestion I do have is Low Quality Facts. Their posts make me snicker usually.
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